It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
JORDAN PETERSONSometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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